TWiki vs. GWiki vs. Pepperminty Wiki vs. DokuWiki vs. PmWiki

General Features TWiki GWiki Pepperminty Wiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Version
TWiki-6.1.0
2.4.0
v0.24 (dev: v0.25-dev)
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.3.33
Last Release Date
2018-07-15 (5 years ago)
2018-06-14 (5 years ago)
2023-02-17 (1 year ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2024-04-20 (15 days ago)
Last Update here
2019-07-19 (4 years ago)
2018-10-16 (5 years ago)
2023-02-19 (1 year ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2024-04-21 (14 days ago)
Author
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Roger Rene Kommer
Starbeamrainbowlabs
Andreas Gohr
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
Apache License, Version 2.0
MPL-2.0
GPL 2
GPL2+
Programming Language
Perl, JavaScript
Java
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Database, Files
Files
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
N/A
Free
Free!
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
User, Developer, Enterprise, Workgroups
Small-Medium sized Wikis and Communities
personal, small to medium companies
All
System Requirements TWiki GWiki Pepperminty Wiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux (All Java Plattforms)
Linux / Windows
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
All Java Servlet Container, included
Anything PHP enabled
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Java 1.8+
php-mbstring, php-imagick (for previews), php-fileinfo (for checking file uploads), php-intl (for unicode text normalization in the search index), `php-sqlite3` (for search index storage), and php-zip (for exporting)
none
Datastorage TWiki GWiki Pepperminty Wiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
No
No
No
Oracle
No
Yes
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
No
No
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Other
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
Google Datastore
n/a
None
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam TWiki GWiki Pepperminty Wiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Internal and external with adapter
None yet
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Host Blocking
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Optional
nofollow
Plugin
Optional
No
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Plugin
No
No
Optional
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
No
Optional
Optional
Optional
Development/Support TWiki GWiki Pepperminty Wiki DokuWiki PmWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
N/A
4 ⭐
133 ⭐
3582 ⭐
N/A
Common Features TWiki GWiki Pepperminty Wiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
No
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features TWiki GWiki Pepperminty Wiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Interface Languages
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
2
German, English
1
English
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Threaded
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
No
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Links TWiki GWiki Pepperminty Wiki DokuWiki PmWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features TWiki GWiki Pepperminty Wiki DokuWiki PmWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Textile Support
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Footnotes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Groovy, Macros, JSP-Taglibs
Not yet, though template includes with parameters is a thing. Pull Requests welcome :-)
Optional, PHP
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Usability TWiki GWiki Pepperminty Wiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Statistics TWiki GWiki Pepperminty Wiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Output TWiki GWiki Pepperminty Wiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Abbreviations
Plugin
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
XML export
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
PDF Export
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media and Files TWiki GWiki Pepperminty Wiki DokuWiki PmWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Keywords
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras TWiki GWiki Pepperminty Wiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
No
Syntax Examples TWiki GWiki Pepperminty Wiki DokuWiki PmWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[path/Page]
[My Title|path/Page]
[[Internal Link]]s
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
External Link
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[http://example.com]
![See the full syntax help here](https://starbeamrainbowlabs.com/labs/peppermint/build/index.php?action=help#20-parser-default)
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
Headlines
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
# Headline
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
*bold*
*Bold Format*
**bold text**
**bold**
'''bold'''
Italics Format
_italic_
_Italic format_
_italics_
//italics//
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
+Unterlined+
__underlined__
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{Monospace}}
`code text`
''monospace''
@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
-StrikeThrough-
~~strikethough text~~
<del>strikethrough</del>
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
^Superscript^
sometext^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
~Subscript~
sometext~subscript~
<sub>subscript</sub>
'_subscript_'
Images
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
!path/SkinSampleGWiki.png!
![Alt text](http://example.com/path/to/image.png)
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
Col1 | Col2 | Col3
-------|--------|-------
this  | is      | a
mark|down|table
Plugin
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
{div:style=...}
Aligned Text
{div}
> Blockquote
N/A
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
- Item 1
- Item 2
-- Sub Item
* Item A
* Item B
* Item C
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
# Item 2
## Sub Item
1. A
2. B
3. C
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
* Item 1
* Item 2
** Sub Item
Plugin
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
---
----
-------
----
----
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